The couples who made it to the semifinals, from left: Stephen Nedoroscik and his partner Rylee Arnold; pro Alan Bersten and Ilona Maher; Joey Graziadei and his partner, Jenna Johnson; pro Witney ...

Until recently, Jema Kellum had never danced salsa. She was more into Reba McEntire and line dancing at the local VFW in Dallas, a northwestern exurb of Atlanta. But then something changed. She went ...

When Elisa Baena first started taking salsa classes in her early twenties, she was usually the youngest person in the room by a decade or more. “I would complain to my mom, ‘I don’t want to dance with ...

In the working-class city of Commerce, where cars speed past on highways and the Citadel Outlets tower over neighborhoods, there is a steakhouse named Stevens. By day, it’s a classic and charming old ...

In 2008, “Salsa” Sarah Haykel, Director of Salsa for the Soul, a part of Love Is Real LLC., set out to create an energetic salsa scene in Buffalo. Eleven years ago, she established a dance series in ...

Dances that offer important history lessons are rare, and these four shows, commissioned by Columbia College as part of its new Afro-Latino dance program, are doubly unique for illuminating a largely ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Salsa Dance Festival is coming back for its third year at the Empire Outlets at the end of next month with food, music, and most importantly, salsa dancing. To celebrate ...

Dance classes are such a fun way to mix up your traditional workout routine. Although this video is structured differently than other installments of PS Fit videos, the remix session combines two ...

The Brazilian Cultural Arts Center of Santa Barbara (BCACSB) will host the first Santa Barbara Latin Festival and Salsa Social, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3 at the Alhecama Theatre, 215 A E. Canon ...

Jennifer Samaniego, 23, grew tired of watching from the sidelines as her boyfriend, who's of Puerto Rican descent, dances salsa, a Latin genre that developed in New York from Spanish Caribbean rhythms ...

He was known as the “Gentleman of Son” because of his infectious enthusiasm for repopularizing the genre considered the bedrock of the Cuban sound. By Lizette Alvarez Adalberto Álvarez, one of Cuba’s ...

Between 1808 and 1826, the countries that make up Latin America fought and won their independence from 300-year Spanish and Portuguese rule. This meant that as newly minted independent nations, the ...